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A CATALOGUE OF
No. 26
Powder-blue Bottle, cabinet size, pear shape with slender cylindrical
neck, fine hard-paste porcelain, covered in sapphire-blue souffle under
a brilliant glaze, showing three white reserved panels in quatrefoil form,
separately decorated in "famille verte" colors.
The symbolic objects on one panel display a vase with two peacock feathers and a
piece of coral, and near it a tripod scroll-holder; the other accessories are Taoist attri-
butes. The remaining two panels are similarly decorated and rendered with much
regard for detail, and are painted in "seven" colors.
White foot, without mark.
K'ang-hsi period (1662-1722).
Height, 1 1 V2 inches.
Diameter, 5^4 inches.
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